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February 5, 1999 Sycamore Review features fiction, poetry, interviews WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The latest issue of Purdue University's award-winning national literary journal Sycamore Review features a collection of the best in contemporary works. The Winter/Spring 1999 edition contains cutting-edge poetry by Kathleen Peirce, Charles Harper Webb and Thomas Fink, fiction by Susan Neville, Tibor Fischer and Richard Wagner, plus two interviews. One interview is with Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer Richard Ford, and the other is with Alyce Miller, author of "The Nature of Longing" and "Stopping for Green Lights." Sycamore Review is available for $7 in Room 442 of Heavilon Hall and at the Stewart Center service desk. It also may be purchased at local bookstores, including Von's Book Shop and Little Professor Book Center, and at the Lafayette Museum of Art. Subscriptions are $12 per year for two issues, $14 per year for foreign subscribers. Back issues also may be purchased. Sycamore Review provides a forum for established and emerging writers and artists from Indiana and across the United States. In 1997, the journal earned an honorable mention in the "O'Henry Awards Anthology, Prize Stories." In 1995, Sycamore Review was rated among the top 10 percent of U.S. literary magazines by the League of Canadian Poets. Sycamore Review was founded in 1988 and is maintained by the Ann Griffith Lindsey Memorial Fund with additional funding from the Indiana Arts Commission, Purdue's Department of English, the School of Liberal Arts and private donations. CONTACT: Sarah Griffiths, editor-in-chief, (765) 494-3783; e-mail, sycamore@expert.cc.purdue.edu Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu To the Purdue News and Photos Page